Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-19

ing.
Typhoid fever is having o run At Roch-
ester.
Henry X. Avous, a Glencoe grocer las as
s'gned.
Two new churches will be built ut Ashby
this year.
Ignatius Donnelly announces that he will
return to his cipher and that the bOok viii be
com pleted in July.
The Northern Pacific will put up a fine ele-
vator at Verndale.
The value Of church property assessed at
Red Wing amounts to $4,000.
John Kretson, a Flndlander, was burned 10
death In Tower jail on Friday.
Mrs. c. A. Gray of Glepco, fell on Saturday
on the lcg pavement and fractured her hip.
X. ID. Gelatt and G. A. Nimocks Will estab-
lish another evening paper at Minneapolis.
South st. Paul is the name Of a new city
which has just been plated and placed Oh the
market. 1t adjoins Vast ST. Paul.
The Wlnona and Southwestern railroad
Will be built next year. Winona CAPITALISTS
are largely interested in the enterprise.
a large asseinblage gathered at the Fari-
bault opera house ON Friday, TO celebrate the
anniversary Of the birth of Robert Emmett.
ii. w. Pratt, OF Faribault, president OF the
State Agricultural society, has resigned or
account of . pressure Of private business af-
fairs.
The st. Cloud Street car company, with
$4,000 capital and right OF way % Sank Rap
ids AID East ut. Clou !, has been incorpor-
ated.
darcy Busch, - years OF age, son Of : pros
porous land owner at Wabashaw, was com
mitted to the insane asylum at Rochester on
the 9TH.
&. w. Morgan has been arrested at Waba,
sha for falsely obtaining IS from a hotel pro-
prietor, by representing that he was a deputy
sheriff.
Mrs. Smith, nearly SO years old, who has
been an invalid for some time, went to al
out house at her home ia 2 ipestons on the 9Th
inst. aDd hanged herself.
Mrs. Ursula L. ToplifT has instituted q sui,
in the district court against the city Of Austin
for alleged physical injury; caused by n fall
on an icy sidewalk last wiater.
Mooracad people are arranging . grand
banquet TO State Senator Comstock, to take
dignitaries are expected to be present.
Tn county commissioners OF Cottonwood
county have purchased a poor farm near
Window. and will erect suitable buildings IT
once. s. VI. Simons has been appointed over
seer.
William IIuey, OF Saltwater, has been ar.
rested upon a char-e Of bastardy. The
complainant Is Mary Thompson, "a girl
fourteen years of age. huey says he is limo.
cent OF the charge.
John IIedman, a bridge carpenter, was
knocked down aud run over by a locomotive
at Brainerd on Friday. One IL his legs was
cut of and he sustained serious injuries about
the head and face.
Joseph and Eliza Silver were arraigntd IN
inst, on the charge OF cruel treatment b the
boy Leonard Williamson, waived examination
and were held To the grand jury in s., 0 bonds.
There is 8 lively war among the oil com
panies at Mankato with kerosene, and oh IL
now retailing at 9 cents per gallon. 1t Is
said 10 be an attempt on the part Of the stan
dard Oil company to drive other oils out OF
market.
Thefollowing ticket was nominated at the
Democratic caucus held In Rochester Thurs.
day: Mayor, A. Nelson; assessor, c. A. Jos
selyn; treasurer, G. G. Parker; attorney, W.
Logan Breckenridge; marshal, +. ri zgersl /
street commissioner, John Furlow; school
commissioner at large, N. 6. Spring.
The affairs OF the defunct Shakopee manu-.
featuring company are In a worse plight than
ever, and the new new receivers hands are
tied 40 by a bond In supersedeas, fled In the
supreme court by one Of the Minneapolis
creditors. The litigation, II is believed, will
absorb the assets.
Near Prescott on the eth inst. q brake
top Of the car, war hurled under the wheel,
cutting of his legs. Death was instantaneous
His name could not be learned, but he in re-
ported to have been a married man and his
home was In some part Of Iowa.
While wer men were engaged Wednesday
afternoon. In raising a windmill tower on the
farm OF r. A. Lyman, q few miles from Red
wood Falls, the rope suddenly broke, throw
ing the tackle block some fifty feet. Jesse
Miller, q young man some twenty.one years
OF age, who was standing by, was struck on
the back of the head by the block and 80 ee-
riously hurt that there Is considerable doubt
Of his recovery.
The English residents Of Winona are all
torn up over a report that a bill had been
SNUG gled through both houses Of the legisla-
ture creating a new Fifth ward In that city
out Of the new territory and that part Of the
Fourth ward east Of the stone road. 1t is
claimed that this bill will give the German
and Polish wards six out Of tea aldermen, and
thus full coutrol OF city legislation.
A special from Northern Pacific Junction
says: A party OF men engaged In the CON
struction OF the Duluth Short Line railway en-
cred a saloon at Thompson Thursday night
with the intention Of cleaning II out" In
the melee which followed the barkeeper, John
Brown, struck Morrill, Buffers on the head
with a billiard cue. He diei from the effects